Hillbilly Wrote:
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> I noticed KENHURST doesn't have any Over35 mens
> ..or Over 45mens team in the Hills District FA.
>
> So, where did all the old fellas go?
>
> Horse riding?

Most are still playing. I might add they also won 1st grade by 3 games in a 21 game comp. Ressies finished 2nd but both sides qualified for the GF in 2 weeks.
Some of the other old fellas retired or picked up a whistle

Juice Wrote:
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> Hillbilly Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > I noticed KENHURST doesn't have any Over35 mens
> > ..or Over 45mens team in the Hills District FA.
> >
> > So, where did all the old fellas go?
> >
> > Horse riding?
>
>
> Most are still playing. I might add they also won
> 1st grade by 3 games in a 21 game comp. Ressies
> finished 2nd but both sides qualified for the GF
> in 2 weeks.
> Some of the other old fellas retired or picked up
> a whistle

The Hills have eyes Wrote:
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> The bottom 3 had a combined GD of -120.
>
> One of the things the Hills Comp shits over GHFA
> is promotion & advertising of the PL competition.
> Would love for GHFA (or whatever they will be
> called from 2020) to take on a few of these
> concepts.

Lefty Wrote:
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> The Hills have eyes Wrote:
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> > The bottom 3 had a combined GD of -120.
> >
> > One of the things the Hills Comp shits over
> GHFA
> > is promotion & advertising of the PL
> competition.
> > Would love for GHFA (or whatever they will be
> > called from 2020) to take on a few of these
> > concepts.
>
> They don’t care mate.
> All they care about is SPIRIT SPIRIT SPIRIT SPIRIT
> SPIRIT SPIRIT SPIRIT SPIRIT SPIRIT SPIRIT SPIRIT
> SPIRIT

Hills member Wrote:
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> As a player in the hills comp, Kenthurst arnt
> actually that dominant with how they play. The
> main difference is how scared and intimidated the
> officials get when kenthurst play and get so
> vocal.
>
> They're still the team everyone hates nothing has
> changed at all.
>
> If the officiating was stronger it would be a
> completely different story.

Average football based on intimidation of the officials? Sounds like nothing has changed at KEN. Well they’re you’re problem now!

Hills member Wrote:
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> As a player in the hills comp, Kenthurst arnt
> actually that dominant with how they play. The
> main difference is how scared and intimidated the
> officials get when kenthurst play and get so
> vocal.
>
> They're still the team everyone hates nothing has
> changed at all.
>
> If the officiating was stronger it would be a
> completely different story.

Officiating was stronger... lol ????

Hills isn’t as strong as GHFA agreed - the bottom teams are a way of the pace of the top ones. But the standard of GHFA PL isn’t what it use to be either. I’ll base that on 23 years playing in it, not for any other reason. Either way both WPH and KEN won their comps respectably and that’s still an accomplishment.

THE ROCK Wrote:
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> So Juice, do you think that WPH would beat the KEN
> team of a few years back?
>
> ie the Nate Gray, Roods, Geekie era?(sorry and you
> :-)

You honestly expect the biggest KEN fanboy to give an unbiased answer to that question? And yea Juice we all know you played for WPH for yeeeears blah blah, keep using that excuse to prove you’re impartial.

Roods is in the same vein as Kurt Morrison (for those that don't know him, he was the maestro at PEN a few years back that was a very good chatter with the ref). Nothing wrong with it, and quite smart when you think about it. No different to players yelling out for their ball when it’s obvious it’s not for outs, corners, offsides etc

As for your question rock, it would depend on the KEN side. If it were the side that also included Tai Smith and Dave Lowery in goals, that made the final of CoC that year, no I don’t think the WPH side would beat them. But following KEN sides, definitely be close. I think WPH would knock over the KEN side that finished the GHFA. WPH have been together for a few seasons now, and that was all that was needed. Always massive potential, that needed time to gel, time to grow (experience). I haven’t seen enough of KEN this year to compare, but WPH this season, proved that maintain their consistency and hunger will do very well in CoC. Wouldn’t it be tasty for them to meet KEN at some stage in that comp? Let’s hope the draw is favourable.

a fair few of the teams could match it with kenthurst over their dominant years but lacked the high quality on the bench and in reserves to keep up

almost every time I played kenthurst they won the game in the second half as the people they brought on from the bench were easily good enough to be starters in the team. So it didn't matter if they had a player get tired or injured as they had someone just as capable to come on and replace them.

teams like PHD, EEW, and STA (and even PEN and RAV at the start of the ken dominance) could match it with kenthurst but couldn't last the full 90 minutes against them

in the year juice is talking about when tai was up front. kenthurst were down 3 nil at half time in a game against ravens and then came back and won 4-3. even scored the winner when down to 10 men

As mentioned GHFA could learn a few things from the hills comp in terms of the premier league. No promoting of the top tier league at all which is a shame. Hills run plenty of social media things for theirs with reviews and information regularly. GHFA with barely anything. Promote the league, get people watching the games and make it more interesting for everyone involved.

At this rate there will be no reffs left to deal with the crap for $67 and once each club has to "provide two reffs each or can't participate" the comp will be useless and my guess is players will come to the hills district or quit...

I live in the hills but there’s reason why I stay in GHFA. For now GHFA is a better comp from top to bottom. Hills does have an awesome media process though, in promoting both the game and the PL - [www.facebook.com]

The grounds aren’t too bad rock. Not as many synthetics granted, but the pitches on par with GHFA PLs that aren’t synthetic.

Juice Wrote:
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> I live in the hills but there’s reason why I
> stay in GHFA. For now GHFA is a better comp from
> top to bottom. Hills does have an awesome media
> process though, in promoting both the game and the
> PL -
> [www.facebook.com]
> e/
>
> The grounds aren’t too bad rock. Not as many
> synthetics granted, but the pitches on par with
> GHFA PLs that aren’t synthetic.

Anyone can throw together a few Facebook pages.. so called 'promotion & marketing'.

Let's face it - how big a crowd can you get?

Even in a top notch NPL1 match between say - Blacktown & Woll. Wolves you'll be lucky to get a 1000.

In a NPL2 GF match you will stretching 500-800 spectators - mostly friends, relatives & a couple of reporters.

I wonder where they get their moolah to pay top players 50-100K and Football TDs earning 150K/yr at least

Hillbilly Wrote:
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> Juice Wrote:
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> > I live in the hills but there’s reason why I
> > stay in GHFA. For now GHFA is a better comp
> from
> > top to bottom. Hills does have an awesome media
> > process though, in promoting both the game and
> the
> > PL -
> >
> [www.facebook.com]
>
> > e/
> >
> > The grounds aren’t too bad rock. Not as many
> > synthetics granted, but the pitches on par with
> > GHFA PLs that aren’t synthetic.
>
>
> Anyone can throw together a few Facebook pages..
> so called 'promotion & marketing'.
>
> Let's face it - how big a crowd can you get?
>
> Even in a top notch NPL1 match between say -
> Blacktown & Woll. Wolves you'll be lucky to get a
> 1000.
>
> In a NPL2 GF match you will stretching 500-800
> spectators - mostly friends, relatives & a couple
> of reporters.
>
> I wonder where they get their moolah to pay top
> players 50-100K and Football TDs earning 150K/yr
> at least

Whatever your take on it - seemingly negative - it’s still something. I watched a KEN midweek cup game v an AA way to low to know, and Hills FA had a FFA intern there taking pictures, getting names of scorers etc. It was great to see. So what if it doesn’t translate to people at games, it’s park football, just as NPL1 really is as well. Point is it’s something to promote grass roots football, improve sponsorship etc. There’s just no keeping everyone happy is there I guess. #silverliningshilbilly